urú
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "uru"
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ur- (“before, over”) + dubhadh (“blackening, darkening”). By surface analysis, uraigh + -ú, though etymologically the verb is a back-formation from the verbal noun.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʊɾˠuː/
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈɔɾˠə/[2] (as if spelled ora)
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfˠauɾˠə/[3] (as if spelled fabhra)
Noun
[edit]urú m (genitive singular uraithe, nominative plural uruithe)
- verbal noun of uraigh
- (astronomy) eclipse
- Synonym: éiclips
- (linguistics) eclipsis, nasalization
Declension
[edit]Declension of urú
Derived terms
[edit]- cuir faoi urú (“eclipse”, verb)
- páirturú
- urú fáinneach
- urú na gealaí (“lunar eclipse”)
- urú na gréine (“solar eclipse”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| urú | n-urú | hurú | t-urú |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
[edit]- ^ “urú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 207
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 142, page 56
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airdubad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “urú”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “urú”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024